We were just talking about this in IRC and I was advised (sarcastically) to bring my idea forward on the mailing list. The UWN has stagnated and frankly the form in which it was presented is an out-dated model. I want to propose we move to a more "social" solution, that allows for more community involvement. A forum post weekly would be sufficient, but I'm more in favor of a blog-style solution.
The benefits of the blog style solution are obvious: - The news is delivered as it happens, in an editorial format that is interesting to users. - Users are able to comment and give feed back on individual editorials - Users are able to add to the editorial themselves through a comment solution. - RSS allows this "news letter" to be delivered directly to anyone who has subscribed to it. I'm sure there are other benefits, but those are the obvious. Potential cons include: - Less professional quality of blog (If the editorial format is followed, it will not look like a machine produced the blog, some see this as a plus) - infrequent posts - opinionated posts (If the editorial format is followed the individual author would be allowed to present the news in a slightly more opinionated format, however it's been shown that people like this kind of thing. It does have it's downfalls though. I feel that ideal sites for this would be wordpress or Blogger.com (blogger may be easier to set up). What do you guys think?
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